Sunday April 15, 2007 - Making God's "Dream" Come True

As I sit here this afternoon at my desk, I watch the snow come down...sigh! Oh well, it could be worse - it could be May! :)

Today we wrapped up our Heroes series with a look at how we can be agents of God's kingdom wherever we go. Borrowing from one of my favorite authors, we changed our terminology and instead of calling it the kingdom of God (since we as Westerners understand so very little about the concept of the kingdom), we infused the term with meaning by calling it the "dream of God." Every hero is driven by a dream, and God's heroes are driven by His dream (His kingdom).

The services were good today, even though we had some minor distractions. Today's word was a "seed" message. By that I mean that I wanted to plant seeds of interest and seeds of the kingdom within the men and women at The Journey. It is my prayer that they pursue the Kingdom wherever they go (Luke 12:31) I have never preached on the kingdom of God before, but my views on the kingdom have been largely influenced through the writings of two men - Brian McLaren (The Secret Message of Jesus) and Donald Kraybill (The Upside-Down Kingdom). No doubt, today's message was like molecule on the piece of snow on the tip of the ice-berg so far as how far reaching and expansive the kingdom of God is. And ust a note - if you were in the first service and you had a hard time following me, you can pick up a CD of the message from the 2nd service. It came across much better (in my opinion!).

During my message where I spoke on making your work an extension of God's dream, Brent Williams came forward and presented the scholarship for the Journey/William's Driving School recipients, Amy & Kay (see picture above).

Overall, a good day. We had 164 people, which is a great day attendance-wise. We had return visitors (Eric & Andrea, Scott & Kimberly) and a good spirit in worship and in the word. I am grateful for what God continues to do at The Journey.